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by lopis 1031 days ago
While you are correct, the differences between different people's DNA is tiny, less 1% at best. So this information is still very valuable. This article is talking about the first time in finishing sequencing one person's Y chromosome's DNA.
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> While you are correct, the differences between different people's DNA is tiny, less 1% at best

How do we know this, if we have only sequenced the chromosome of one individual?

We have sequenced the genome using different sampling and statistical models for a long time.